The second episode of NHK's "Saturday Drama 'After the Earthquake'" (General TV, Saturday 10:00 pm), based on a short story published by Haruki Murakami after the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, will be broadcast on April 12th. The second episode is "#2 'A Scene with an Iron'" starring Yui Narumi. Kodai Kurosaki and Shinichi Tsutsumi also appear.
"After the Earthquake" is a drama series based on four stories from Murakami's collection of short stories "All God's Children Dance" (published in 2000). The setting is not only changed from 1995 to 2025, depicting the 30 years of "after the earthquake" that continue from the "present".
The drama's script was written by Oe Takayoshi, who also wrote the film "Drive My Car," which was based on another Murakami novel, and the drama was directed by Inoue Go Inoue , who has worked on NHK's Asadora drama series "Amachan" in the first half of 2013.
"#2 'A Scene with an Iron'" is set in Ibaraki in 2011. Junko (Narumi), who ran away from home after having trouble with her father, is now living part-time with Keisuke ( Kodai Kurosaki) in a seaside town.
Junko meets Miyake (Tsutsumi) at the convenience store where she works. He speaks Kansai dialect and has a hobby of collecting driftwood and having bonfires. Junko is attracted to Miyake, who has also drifted to the town, and before long they start having bonfires together.
One night, over a larger bonfire than ever before, Miyake's past begins to be revealed...
